Tim Williams
PhD Candidate
Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
I model risk and resilience in smallholder agricultural systems.
My underlying motivation is to encourage agricultural systems
to develop and transform in a way that promotes both the betterment of society and the prosperity of the environment.
To achieve this, I use both agent-based modeling to examine how systems may behave in the future or under intervention
and empirical analysis and data mining to better understand observed historical relationships.
I am broadly interested in the intersection of these two forms of analysis.